Collar.



vNo. 792,445. PATENTED JUNE 13, 190.5. I. H. NORRIS.

COLLAR. APPLICATION FILED mm: 20,1904.

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PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK H. NORRIS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION" forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,445, dated June 13, 1905.

Application filed June 20, 1904. Serial No. 213,308.

To all /1/0772, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK H. NORRIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of \Vayne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Collars; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to collars.

It has for its object an improved folded or turn-down collar having a standard or band part provided with buttonholes by means of which the collar is secured to the neckband of the shirt and with a turn-down or ornamental part secured to the top of the band part and adapted to be turned or folded down to cover the string of the necktie or cravat. The improvement relates especially to the middle fastening, by which the middle part of the collar is secured to the neckband at the back of the neck. and it provides a protective covering for the button, which prevents the button from projecting through a standing part of the collar into the passage or opening between the standing part and the turn-down part, and it thus protects the string of the tie from all contact with the head of the button and makes it easy to insert the string of the tie into its proper channel after the collar has been buttoned to the neckband of the shirt. In the drawings several detail ways of accomplishing the result are shown, all of which produce the same general result of protecting the necktie from the button; but the collars containing the several forms shown differ in details of construction.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a collar in which an independent buttonhole-strip is attached to the inside of the standing part of the collar. independent protecting strip is placed between the standing part of the collar and the turn-down part. In the form shown in Fig. 3 the standing part is made of two strips, both of which extend the full length of the collar, but which are arranged at the middle In the form shown in Fig. 2 an point to enable one part to guard the button which projects through the other.

1 indicates the stand-up or band part of the collar, to which is secured in the ordinary and well-known way the turn-down part 2. At the middle part of the collar there is provided a pocket or opening between the several layers which there constitute the stand-up part of the collar. Through the innermost of these (the one which lies nearest to the neck of the wearer when the collar is in use) is made the buttonhole I, and below the buttonhole the innermost strip or layer or the innermost pair of layers is cut or folded to form below the buttonhole a curved edge that is retracted from and in use lies above the edge of the layers of the stand-up part of the collar, giving to the part which contains the buttonhole a curved edge between the points 6 and 7 that lies higher up than the curved edge between the same points 6 and 7 of the folds next adjacent and to the outside of the collar.

In the form shown in Fig. 1 the buttonholepiece 3 is planted on the face or surface of the long folds which extend from end to end of the collar and is secured by stitches along the curved line from 5 9 8. The edges at the bottom edge of the collar are infolded and stitched, the same line of stitching running entirely around the lower edge of the collar and across the lower edges of the planted-0n piece 3.

In the form shown in Fig. 2 the piece 10 is similar in shape to the piece 3, but is planted outside or farther from the neck of the wearer than the long strips in which are found the end buttonholes. In this form the middle of the long strips which extend from end to end is retracted below the buttonhole 4:, furnishing easy access to the pocket between the long strips of the standard part and the piece 10 planted onto it.

In the form shown in Fig. 3 the guard-strip and the strip in which is found the middle buttonhole extend from end to end of the collar, and that pair of them which lies toward the neck of the wearer is retracted at the middle and lies above the edge of the pair of strips next adjacent, but toward the outside of the collar. A line of stitching 12 runs around the pocket in which the head of the button is received.

In all the forms there is a pocket at the middle of the collar, to which easy access is had for the buttoning of the back button, and all edges are turned in and seamed, leaving no raw edges at any part of the collar. In all the forms the extra strip is stitched to the standing part of the collar along its upper edge. In the forms shown in Figs. 1 and 2 the upper edge of this strip forms also the boundary of the pocket. In the form shown in Fig. 3 the boundary of the pocket is formed by an extra line of stitching. In all of the forms shown the extra strip is stitched to the standing part of the collar along its bottom edge for a distance from each end of the strip toward the middle thereof, and for a short distance along the pocket-opening the standing part and the extra strip are not scoured together, but are both provided with stitched edges.

What I claim is" 1. In a collar in combination with a standing part provided with end bnttonholes, and a turn-over part secured to the standing part along the top edge thereof, a strip stitched to the standing part at the ends, the upper edge and portions of the lower edge thereof, and forming with said standing part a pocket for a button-head with the opening therefor at the lower edge of the collar, a buttonhole for the insertion therethrough of said buttonhead being provided in one of said parts, substantially as described.

2. In a collar, in combination with a standing part and a turn-over part secured to the top edge of said standing part, a strip stitched to the standing part at each end, at the upper edge and along the end portions of the lower edge, said standing part extending below said strip at the middle part thereof, and said strip being provided at its middle point with a buttonhole affording a passage therethrough, said standing part and said strip forming at the center of the collar a pocket accessible from the lower edge, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

FREDERICK H. NORRIS. lVitnesses:

MAY E. Ko'r'r, ELLIOTT J SToDDAnn. 

